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Members of the Youth Human Rights Movement have been invited to the Advisory Committee of the internet project rightsinrussia.info

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04.10.2010

The team of the English Internet project Rights in Russia has invited the members of the Youth Human Rights Movement Andrey Yurov, Dmitry Makarov and Anastasia Nikitina to join their Advisory Committee. The project has been working for almost one year, collecting unique first-hand information about the situation of human rights in Russia, primarily by taking opinions and viewpoints of human rights defenders into account.

In his interview on the website HRO.org the editor of the project, Simon Cosgrove, who also shares the goals of this unique project, suggested Russian human rights organizations to participate by sending information about problems of human rights issues to this e-mail adress rightsinrussia@rightsinrussia.info (in Russian!).

Cosgrove says, that on the one hand it was simply a personal wish to gather together in one place as much information or at least links about human rights in Russia in English language as possible. On the other hand, and of course this reason is more serious, there is a real interest in human rights in Russia abroad, but there is a lack of knowledge about these issues, because of a deficit of easily accessible and trustworthy resources in English.Thirdly, the voices of Russian civil society activists are outside Russia often heard less loudly and clearly than they deserve it. I think their views and opinions are often known, but little outside Russia. It is true, that non-Russian media often interpret the opinions and statements of Russian human rights defenders, and NGOs also transmit and interpret the opinions and statements of civil society activists from Russia. And of course, it is a very positive thing that they do this. But nevertheless in this process of interpretation and transmission, to a significant extent, the voices of Russian human rights defenders themselves get lost.As a matter of fact, most materials in the website HRO.org are available in English. Besides, readers can subscribe to these English-language materials by sending a request to: subscribe@rightsinrussia.info

You can also find our materials on Blogger, Facebook, Google Reader, Live Journal and Twitter.On behalf of YHRM we invite all its members to report about their work and human rights issues by using the website RightsinRussia.info